New Releases
Here you will find an in-depth guide to new films. The Skinny offers synopsis and reviews of the latest film releases.
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FestivalsEIFF 2009: The Hurt Locker
Kathryn Bigelow takes on the war genre, in this excellent film about a bomb disposal unit in Iraq. Like many films dealing with similar subject matter (for e... Read more »| 19 Jun 2009 -
FestivalsEIFF 2009: White Lightnin'
Based on the semi-biographical story of Jesco White, White Lightnin' is a brutal and uncompromising example of the trials and tribulations of hillbilly life.... Read more »| 19 Jun 2009 -
FestivalsEIFF 2009: Little Soldier
Traumatised by her experiences as a soldier in Iraq, Lotte (Trine Dyrholm) returns to Denmark, where she drifts and drinks until she gets a job as a driver a... Read more »| 19 Jun 2009 -
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EIFF 2009: Nollywood Babylon
What’s the third largest film industry in the world after Hollywood and Bollywood? No? Nollywood, of course. In less than twenty years, using cheap dig... Read more »| 19 Jun 2009 -
FestivalsEIFF 2009: Big River Man
Hard drinking and overweight, Martin Strel is an unlikely athlete. Yet the 53 year old Slovenian is a legend in the world of endurance swimming and a hero to... Read more »| 17 Jun 2009 -
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Looking for Eric
Eric Bishop is a lost postman who has begun to feel that events around him are running out of control. For one, there are his unruly stepsons and on top of ... Read more »| 15 Jun 2009
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Kisses
Dylan (Shane Curry) is a boy grown cold in a loveless house. Cast out on Christmas Day, he encounters the determined Kylie (Kelly O’Neill). Together th... Read more »| 14 Jun 2009 -
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The End Of The Line
“The Europeans like our fish, but they don’t like the people”, laments academic Rashid Sumaila on the human cost of overfishing in West Afr... Read more »| 12 Jun 2009 -
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Telstar
Telstar is the biopic of legendary 60s music producer Joe Meek, who from a tiny studio above a shop in London’s Holloway Road, produced the top-selling... Read more »| 11 Jun 2009 -
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Terminator Salvation
In the build up to the release of Terminator 3, James Cameron proclaimed the series to be “so last century”. T3 just about worked, but this stal... Read more »| 05 Jun 2009 -
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Last House On The Left
Summer is fast approaching and so is the slew of next generation horrors also known to the studios as reimaginings and known to the rest of us as rehashing. ... Read more »| 04 Jun 2009 -
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Anything For Her
Lisa (Diane Kruger) and Julien (Vincent Lindon) have a loving relationship, a young son, and a happy, if unremarkable, life together. Their world is turned u... Read more »| 03 Jun 2009 -
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New Town Killers
During the great depression, cinema proved a fertile avenue for escapism and catharsis, with filmmakers producing some of the golden greats of movie history:... Read more »| 01 Jun 2009 -
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12 Rounds
The Wrestler director Darren Aronofsky recently lamented the decline of the action movie muscle man. But with the recent comebacks of Willis, Stallone and Va... Read more »| 29 May 2009 -
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Last Chance Harvey
Divorcee Harvey Shine (Dustin Hoffman) is on the verge of losing his job and due to fly to London to attend his daughter’s wedding. Juggling work and ... Read more »| 29 May 2009